Ilir Shaqiri

Ilir Shaqiri (1960-) was an Kosovan author, singer, songwriter, and Kosovo Liberation Army veteran.

Biography
Ilir Shaqiri was born in Buroje, Kosovo, Yugoslavia in 1960 to a family of Sunni Muslim Albanians, and he worked as a teacher before becoming a musical performer. In 1985, he formed a folk music group with Hamez Jashari, the future Kosovo Liberation Army leader. In 1998, he held 109 concerts in support of the KLA across Europe, and he became a member of the KLA's Military Artistic Corps. Shaqiri moved to Prishtina, served as a member of the Kosovo Writers' Association, and participated in over 1,000 concerts (900 of them humanitarian).